and this is just a "Warning" - what would our authorities have putout?
 

WIND CHILL WARNING: City of Regina Issued at 2:31 AM CST THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 2009

EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 40 TO MINUS 45 THIS MORNING. THIS IS A WARNING THAT
EXTREME WIND CHILL CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS.
MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.
BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES IN THE MID MINUS 30'S TO MINUS 40 COMBINED WITH WINDS
OF 15 TO 20 KM/H WILL CREATE EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 45 TO MINUS 50
OVERNIGHT. AT THESE WIND CHILL VALUES, FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR WITHIN 5 MINUTES.
WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO MODERATE SLIGHTLY BY MIDDAY AS DAY TIME
TEMPERATURES INCREASE.

and this is just a "Warning" - what would our authorities have put out?
 

Just a question

I was listening to a US radio station on medium wave (one of my
hobbies!) last night and they were talking about temperatures being
"30 below"

I had never been quite sure what they meant by this but looking at a
weather site the temperature for the area was being given as 1F. So I
presume "30 below" simply means 30 below freezing point.

Is that right?


On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:03:58 +0000, ucsdcpc
wrote:



WIND CHILL WARNING: City of Regina Issued at 2:31 AM CST THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 2009

EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 40 TO MINUS 45 THIS MORNING. THIS IS A WARNING THAT
EXTREME WIND CHILL CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS.
MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.
BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES IN THE MID MINUS 30'S TO MINUS 40 COMBINED WITH WINDS
OF 15 TO 20 KM/H WILL CREATE EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 45 TO MINUS 50
OVERNIGHT. AT THESE WIND CHILL VALUES, FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR WITHIN 5 MINUTES.
WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO MODERATE SLIGHTLY BY MIDDAY AS DAY TIME
TEMPERATURES INCREASE.

and this is just a "Warning" - what would our authorities have put out?
 

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:05:23 +0000, Paul C wrote:

Just a question

I was listening to a US radio station on medium wave (one of my
hobbies!) last night and they were talking about temperatures being
"30 below"

I had never been quite sure what they meant by this but looking at a
weather site the temperature for the area was being given as
1F. So I presume "30 below" simply means 30 below freezing point.

Is that right?

Well done so thats +2F then

And Regina is the Provincial capital of Saskatchewan, Canada and
-40/45c is expected however -40 is minus 40 on both F/C scales





On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:03:58 +0000, ucsdcpc
wrote:



WIND CHILL WARNING: City of Regina Issued at 2:31 AM CST THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 2009

EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 40 TO MINUS 45 THIS MORNING. THIS IS A WARNING THAT
EXTREME WIND CHILL CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS.
MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.
BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES IN THE MID MINUS 30'S TO MINUS 40 COMBINED WITH WINDS
OF 15 TO 20 KM/H WILL CREATE EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 45 TO MINUS 50
OVERNIGHT. AT THESE WIND CHILL VALUES, FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR WITHIN 5 MINUTES.
WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO MODERATE SLIGHTLY BY MIDDAY AS DAY TIME
TEMPERATURES INCREASE.

and this is just a "Warning" - what would our authorities haveput out?
 

temperatures being
"30 below"

Yep - all based in F not C of course. Regina being in Canada is show celcius temps.

Chris

Paul C wrote:
Just a question

I was listening to a US radio station on medium wave (one of my
hobbies!) last night and they were talking about temperatures being
"30 below"

I had never been quite sure what they meant by this but looking at a
weather site the temperature for the area was being given as 1F. So I
presume "30 below" simply means 30 below freezing point.

Is that right?


On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:03:58 +0000, ucsdcpc
wrote:


WIND CHILL WARNING: City of Regina Issued at 2:31 AM CST THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 2009

EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 40 TO MINUS 45 THIS MORNING. THIS IS A WARNING THAT
EXTREME WIND CHILL CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS.
MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.
BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES IN THE MID MINUS 30'S TO MINUS 40 COMBINED WITH WINDS
OF 15 TO 20 KM/H WILL CREATE EXTREME WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 45 TO MINUS 50
OVERNIGHT. AT THESE WIND CHILL VALUES, FROSTBITE CAN OCCUR WITHIN 5 MINUTES.
WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO MODERATE SLIGHTLY BY MIDDAY AS DAY TIME
TEMPERATURES INCREASE.

and this is just a "Warning" - what would our authorities have put out?
 

Paul C wrote:

Just a question

I was listening to a US radio station on medium wave (one of my
hobbies!) last night and they were talking about temperatures being
"30 below"

I had never been quite sure what they meant by this but looking at a
weather site the temperature for the area was being given as 1F. So I
presume "30 below" simply means 30 below freezing point.

Is that right?

In the UK, before we switched to Celsius, the phrase would have been "14
degrees of frost" for a temperature of 18F.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

and this is just a "Warning" - what would our authorities haveput out?
 

On Jan 15, 3:03*pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
Paul C wrote:
Just a question

I was listening to a US radio station on medium wave (one of my
hobbies!) last night and they were talking about temperatures being
"30 below"

I had never been quite sure what they meant by this but looking at a
weather site the temperature for the area was being given as 1F. So I
presume "30 below" simply means 30 below freezing point.

Is that right?

In the UK, before we switched to Celsius, the phrase would have been "14
degrees of frost" for a temperature of 18F.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy

To my knowledge the words "thirty below" in the USA mean
-30°F, i.e. about -36°C and probably refers in the present case to a
windchill temperature, though not necessarily.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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In message
,
Tudor Hughes writes
On Jan 15, 3:03*pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
Paul C wrote:
Just a question

I was listening to a US radio station on medium wave (one of my
hobbies!) last night and they were talking about temperatures being
"30 below"

I had never been quite sure what they meant by this but looking at a
weather site the temperature for the area was being given as 1F. So I
presume "30 below" simply means 30 below freezing point.

Is that right?

In the UK, before we switched to Celsius, the phrase would have been "14
degrees of frost" for a temperature of 18F.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy

To my knowledge the words "thirty below" in the USA mean
-30°F, i.e. about -36°C and probably refers in the present case to a
windchill temperature, though not necessarily.

Daily Mail website now quotes forty below which neatly coincides - I
haven't looked for the possible Robert W Service quotations.
--
Peter Thomas